SEMANTIC FEATURES OF THE NAMES OF ASTRAKHAN PISCIVOROUS BIRDS

The article is devoted to the description of the names of piscivorous birds in the Astrakhan dialects. The nominations of birds in the Russian language constitute a layer of common Slavic vocabulary. The Proto-Slavic vocabulary and wordformation system served as the basis for further historical development. A feature of the names of birds is the presence of two types of names - nomenclature (pelican, cormorant, seagull), formed on the basis of data from natural sciences, and folk. The subject of consideration is the process of formation of the Astrakhan nominations of piscivorous birds and the identification of motivating signs of derivative names, only a small part of which entered the literary language. In the Astrakhan dialects, there are more than 60 names of fish-eating birds. Derived nominations are indirect in relation to the rethought linguistic form.